I opened https://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3986 for the
Python 3 issue. Feel free to open an issue for the issue of getting
2*log(x) instead of 2l*og*x.

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not clear enough on how the standard_transformations work to say
> if this should happen or not. We definitely need a better API to our
> parser to allow fixing this sort of issue.
>
> By the way, there *is* something that is definitely a bug, though,
> which is that it happens in Python 3, even though 1l is not valid
> syntax in Python 3.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Duane Nykamp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is this the desired behavior of parse_expr?
>>
>> In [16]: parse_expr("2log(x)", transformations=(standard_transformations+
>> (implicit_multiplication,)))
>> Out[16]: 2⋅og⋅x
>>
>> In [17]: parse_expr("2log(x)", transformations=(standard_transformations+
>> (implicit_multiplication_application,)))
>> Out[17]: 2⋅g⋅o⋅x
>>
>> It appears that the "l" from log gets sucked into the 2 turning it into 2L
>> and leaving just og(x) left over.  Putting a space between 2 and log(x)
>> fixes the problem.
>>
>> I'd consider this unintuitive behavior and confusing to users. Would it make
>> sense to group the "l" with the "log" in this case?
>>
>> Duane
>>
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